FALL EQUINOX, AGING, AND APPLE BUTTER
A fall afternoon spent making apple butter with a ninety-three-year-old neighbor becomes a quiet lesson in how to keep living fully through loss and aging.
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What My Whoop Coach Taught Me About Aging Well
A reflection on what a Whoop coach and months of body data taught me about redefining success, pacing myself, and finding peace with a slower kind of strength as I age.
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Time Passages — Chasing the White Rabbit
A reflection on how the internet and daily distractions pull us out of the present moment — and why staying grounded matters more as we age.
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Exploring Spirituality: Faith, Prayer, and Aging Consciously
After a couple of references to Christianity in previous posts, I thought it only fair to share what I mean by Spirit in this blog and explore my own background and current attitude toward spirituality. I grew up in the deep south, and I have a lot of memories of going to church, of ministers
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Each Breath I Take: Breathing, Aging, and the Vagus Nerve
My whole premise in this blog is the connection between our Minds, Bodies, and Spirits, and how that affects our living and our aging. That connection is present from the moment the baby leaves its mother’s body and takes that first gasp of air as a separate physical being. In Genesis, God is said to
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Vulnerability – Whatever the Age – We Are Not Alone
You may have noticed in the earlier posts that Mind, Body and Spirit have a kind of porous way of bleeding into each other. If you aren’t trying to lock one part of yourself out of your life, you may have recognized that the same thing happens in your life and body. By locking out,
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Living with the Body we have – Aging Consciously
When I was in my forties, I fell – on the way to an exercise class (ha-ha) – and fractured my ankle. It required three pins to hold it back together. That was probably my first tap on the shoulder saying, ‘hey, that body is fragile.’ Despite various other ills that came along – rheumatoid
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Living – Thriving – Moving Forward – Aging Consciously
“Have a Blessed Day!” “I am so grateful.” When I was younger, I thought these phrases were a kind of affectation, an expression of spiritual superiority. Maybe in some cases it was and is, but not much is binary and those things that are; well, they’re not very good for the human condition. To
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Sharing Our Journey – Aging Consciously
Have you noticed the synchronicity of things? Lately the same words keep popping up in whatever I’m listening to or reading…vulnerability, authenticity, grounding, letting go and loss. I’ve been thinking about letting go. I’m sure most of us can remember trips in which we traveled with another person, several friends, possibly our children. I remember
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